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To: Yorikke who wrote (435)	1/31/1998 5:46:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 650

RE: "social issues" in pulp.... ;-} mnmuench, I do not judge these books harshly. However, there is no denying that they are a cultural product of their time and place. As such, they are just one more "document" to decode when trying to understand a point in history. Actually, if anything, that thought makes them all the more enjoyable to me. Whereas I might not read a comic book, pulp fiction war story, or Harlequin romance, or watch some tacky "B" movie for its entertainment value alone, these "pop culture artifacts" provide some of the richest material in existence for those who get their kicks by deconstructing them. But that is just one Croc's opinion... ;-} BTW, yes, the hero of "She" was attracted to the dangerous woman..... for are dangerous women not also rather enchanting? There have been many. At the fin-de-siŠcle, you find such works as Wilde's "Salome", and Beardsley's Medusa-like renderings of women. Step back a few years before and you have the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's fascination with similar themes.... Hmmmmmm... However, returning to "She", without giving away the ending, such "romances" between good men and dangerous women never quite work out, do they? Croc.. >;-}>

To: Yorikke who wrote (435)	1/31/1998 5:55:00 PM
From: Carol	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 650

..its like the Mowat thing.....If Farley told more tale than truth then I am sad for him; but it does not decrease the enjoyment I felt in reading the books.. Mowat recalled, "I was sitting on a hill in northern Manitoba, and people were slaughtering wolves all around, and I just got good goddamned mad. I decided I was going to write this book." "It was a deliberately contrived peice of propaganda. I was deliberately nonscientific" Even Mowat, himself, admits that the book was not really based on scientific study, but more on a gut reaction to the carnage he observed around him. Not since Little Red Riding Hood has there ever been a story written that would influence the attitudes of so many toward these animals. Maybe, some would say, with just as little factual content. Mowat didn't really care what scientists had to say. The redefinition of the wolf's nature was as much the reflection of human phsychological and spiritual need as it was the fruit of scientific investigation. Mowat is credited with unshackling the wolf from the old legends. He did more than anyone else to change the public attitude. He brought the wolf out into the open and we can never go back from there. So why not just enjoy what he wrote, whether fact or fiction, it served the purpose for which it was written. 0:-) Carol